Chapter 226: Became a Thief
Seeing a group of yamen runners coming in, Li Zhiyuan and others couldn't help but tense up, and the anger from the quarrel just now was instantly extinguished.
It is never a good thing when the bailiff comes to your door!
Li Zhiyuan smiled and stepped forward: "Brothers, what's the important matter?"
Captain Feng asked, "Is Gu Han here?"
Li Zhiyuan's heart skipped a beat: "Gu Han? He's not at home now. He's out doing something important. What do you want to see him about?"
"Huh! Doing something big? It really is a big deal." Captain Feng laughed, "Last night, a thief sneaked into Madam Ye's house in Qinghe Village and stole more than 20 kilograms of cassava from her. He also trampled on several of her flowers. Those flowers were worth ten taels."
The true value of cassava could not be told to others, so Captain Feng made up an excuse, saying that the flowers had been trampled.
"Now that Madam Ye has reported the case, we went to investigate and found that the thief is a cripple. Your family is the only cripple around here!"
Everyone in the Li family saw darkness.
Li Jiaojiao's eyes widened: "What did you say? Gu Han went to steal something? What did he steal?"
"Didn't I just say that he stole more than 20 kilograms of cassava from someone? Of course, cassava is not valuable, but the problem is that when he was stealing, he stepped on someone's flowers, which are worth ten taels."
Li Jiaojiao's face turned pale and blue, and she held the letter tightly.
Mrs. Li was the first to explode: "Li Jiaojiao, you bitch, didn't you just say that he went to do something big? The big thing you said was to become a thief? Huh?"
Li Jiaojiao was also extremely ashamed and angry. What a big deal! His biggest job is to be a thief?
It would have been fine if he was just a thief, he stole gold and silver and she called him "Big Brother" and a "big thief", but he actually went so far as to steal cassava!
How much is cassava worth? It's just three or four cents a pound! More than twenty pounds only costs seventy or eighty cents!
He stole this? That’s it?
Li Zhiyuan and Zhang Shuiniang, mother and son, were also disgraced, angry and ashamed, staring at Li Jiaojiao.
Li Jiaojiao said anxiously: "Wait, Brother Cha, is there any misunderstanding? Even if my Gu Han is a cripple, it doesn't necessarily mean he is the one!"
Captain Feng said, "So we are here to investigate! Don't worry, we will never wrongly accuse a good person. Come on, search for me!"
The yamen runners behind him immediately rushed into the rooms.
Finally, all the shoes from the Li family were taken over.
All the shoes were thrown on the ground, and a yamen runner measured each shoe with a tape measure.
Everyone in the Li family looked so angry that their eyes almost bulged out, but they didn't dare to say a word.
After the runners finished measuring, Captain Feng smiled and asked, "Which pair of shoes are Gu Han's?"
Li Zhiyuan knew that they must have gotten the shoe print size, and now that they had measured it, he had an idea in his mind, so he had to tell the truth:
"The pair... the most worn one with the small hole in it is his..."
Captain Feng smiled and said, "You are honest. This pair of shoes matches the shoe prints left in Qinghe Village. Come, take Li Zhiyuan and the others away and put them in jail first."
Mrs. Li was startled and started to howl, "This is so unfair! Gu Han is not from our Li family! Why is he locking us up?"
Captain Feng: "Isn't he one of your servants?"
Mrs. Li cried, "No, he is just a freeloader! Last year, my granddaughter took him home out of pity, but he stayed there and refused to leave. He is not from my family. Not to mention my servant. It is his business if he steals things. Besides, he just stepped on a ten-liang flower, which is not a big deal."
Li Zhiyuan also shouted anxiously:
"No matter what, I am also a scholar! Even if I meet the county magistrate, I don't have to kneel. You all know that it was Gu Han who stole the things, so just catch him, why catch us?"
"Humph, I'm afraid you will conspire with him."
"Why would we conspire with him? Just to steal some cassava? I am a scholar, I can easily earn 10 or 8 taels, why would I need to steal some cassava?"
Captain Feng frowned, after all, what Li Zhiyuan said made sense.
Li Jiaojiao quickly threw the letter in front of Captain Feng: "Look, this is his letter. He left on his own. What does it have to do with us?"
He nodded: "Okay. Once we catch Gu Han, if this matter is related to you, it won't be too late to catch you."
After saying this, he left with a group of yamen runners.
Mrs. Li and Zhang Shuiniang were so frightened that they collapsed to the ground.
Li Jiaojiao felt bitter in her heart. When she saw Gu Han's letter in the morning, she actually felt a glimmer of anticipation.
Who would have thought that this would become a huge joke...
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In Qinghe Village, Ye Caiping was sitting in the main room.
She found out that it was really Gu Han who stole it, and nodded:
"I'll trouble Captain Feng and Magistrate Lu to take care of this matter. I hope Gu Han can be captured as soon as possible. Also, only a few of us know about the yellow-heart cassava, and I don't know how it was leaked."
Captain Feng said, "Don't worry, Madam Ye, we will investigate this matter thoroughly and bring Gu Han to justice."
After a few more words, Captain Feng took the yamen runners away.
Ye Caiping was a little worried.
Although the investigation was quick, Li Jiaojiao, as the heroine, was always guided by the power of the plot.
As Gu Han is the male lead, I am afraid that he will have the male lead's aura.
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Since Gu Han left, the balance has been broken, and the atmosphere in the entire Li family has been depressing and gloomy these days.
No one in the family wants to do housework.
What Mrs. Li was thinking was that she was the elder, so why should she, as a mother-in-law and grandmother, serve her daughter-in-law and grandchildren?
Zhang Shuiniang thought, she was a rich lady, and Li Zhiyuan had shamelessly knelt in front of her and begged her to marry him, so she should enjoy her life, and any work she did would be an insult to her status.
Li Jiaojiao felt that she was a reborn girl with great opportunities and great fortune, and would achieve great things in the future, but she was unwilling to do it.
Li Zimo followed the principle that a gentleman should stay away from the kitchen. As a scholar himself, how could he do housework?
Li Zhiyuan would be even less likely to do it.
Everyone has his own persistence. Of course, no one would take the initiative to mention housework at this moment. Everyone was just being negative and in the cold war. It just depended on who would give in first.
Li Jiaojiao brought Zhang Shuiniang to Li Gouwa's house every day to eat.
Li Zhiyuan and Li Zimo ate in school and were hungry at night.
Mrs. Li would eat at this restaurant today and at that restaurant tomorrow.
Poor chickens and pigs at home, they are all screaming with hunger.
When the villagers saw how the family behaved, they were all stunned. How could this family be so lazy?
After a few days, whether it was Li Gou Wa's family or other families, they were afraid of being fed free meals and would close their doors when they saw them from afar.
The three women of the Li family had no choice but to go home.
Li Zhiyuan and his son were on leave again, and the family of five were hungry at home, looking at each other. They looked at each other with rage, but no one broke the silence.
"Hey, long time no see, Mr. Li, I'm here again!" A burst of laughter rang out, and Mrs. Zhao came to the door, "I heard that there was a thief in your house."
"Get out!" Li Zhiyuan could no longer maintain his composure and wanted to push Mrs. Zhao out.
But then he realized that he couldn't even push her, and she pushed him to the ground!
"I just won't leave, what can you do to me? I came here with good intentions to care about you, but you guys chased me away." Mrs. Zhao was reasonable, "I heard that your family has started to beg."
"Today she goes to this house and tomorrow she goes to that house. If you ask me, your family is really weird. Everyone is lazy. It's understandable that the mother-in-law doesn't work, but it's really weird that the daughter-in-law actually waits for the mother-in-law to serve her every day."
As he said this, he looked at Mrs. Li with sympathy.
How much Li Pozi disliked Zhao Pozi before, now she hated her so much that tears welled up in her eyes:
"What sin have I committed to marry such a treacherous, lazy, greedy and wicked daughter-in-law. Wuuwuwu..."
Mrs. Zhao's eyes lit up: "How pitiful. My daughter-in-law is so wicked, and my son still indulges her. Alas, I'm leaving first!"
After saying that, he ran out of the door like a fly.
Li Zhiyuan's eyes went dark. He knew very well how strong Mrs. Zhao's fighting ability was.
With that mouth of hers, in less than half a day, everyone in the neighborhood knew that he was unfilial! He allowed his wife to bully his own mother!
Mrs. Li was still crying.
Li Zhiyuan had had enough, and turned back to stare coldly at Zhang Shuiniang: "Shuiniang, no matter what, you are a daughter-in-law, you can't wait for your mother-in-law to serve you every day, right?"
"Just do what you need to do! And Jiaojiao, you're already fifteen years old, you should do some work. Otherwise, who would dare to marry you when they see you being so lazy?"
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